Ribh's D'Coopage

[Ribh]

He's right you need more.

At the very least I expected him to say we needed to extend that top bar ~ not acquire more chickens!

 

[Ribh]

I think so. Initially, I was thinking of moving her closer to home, but the facilities close to me are not as good as the one in Nashville and they don't allow visitation. So I'm seriously considering keeping her at Vanderbilt.

Does Sue have a preference? I expect she'd prefer to be where she can have visitors. I love how Shad expressed it: Has she bitten a nurse or doctor today? Sure sign of improvement! Please give her our love. Some for you too of course!

 

[LozzyR]

She is a very silly kitty... personality plus!! She plays fetch better than a retriever! We absolutely adore her... she has a silly name to match her silly nature.. Teddy Jo

Our Burmese used to fetch and walk on a lead, he doesn’t do those anymore.

 

[LozzyR]

I don't think we get the variety of what you guys call *easter eggers* out here. I know our Aracaunas are different. They follow the British standard. So we don't see quite the egg colour variety like WhoDat gets. There are sure to be plenty of barnyard mixes but again many of the backyarders I know have ISA Browns. Those who take their poultry keeping seriously are far more likely to have quality rarer breeds but they are a really scary bunch of people & some are quite snooty. I joined a FB group just for contacts for 1 or 2 breeds I am interested in but which are really hard to source but I don't participate in the discussions; I know; hard to believe, right? But it gets nasty quickly & I am happy enough just reading for information. The man seriously wants to expand his nursery & if he gets his commercial block he wants me to try chickens. I am thinking about it ~ mostly which breeds I want to promote but there's those darn cockerels...!!!

My Frizzle breeder friend said that chicken people can be strange and an Indian Brahma breeder I know said the same. Aren’t we chicken people though?! And FB can be really toxic and a real time-waster.

 

[Ribh]

It went down to 5C overnight but without wind. It is still cold to us & it was colder in the hollows because the lad ran out of fuel on his way to the boat ramp this morning & I was running round the island in my PJs, coffeeless & barely awake, lugging a fuel container to him & there was a very light powdering of frost in 1 or 2 places. As we only see proper frost once or twice a winter it's always something of a novelty!

 

[Ribh]

My Frizzle breeder friend said that chicken people can be strange and an Indian Brahma breeder I know said the same. Aren’t we chicken people though?! And FB can be really toxic and a real time-waster.

FB is horrible. I keep an account as it's an emergency contact for my daughter when she's overseas. Sometimes the phone just doesn't work from Chile but in an emergency she could always use the work computer to leave me a quick message. WhatsApp is replacing it ~ which I am super happy about. I think it's the serious show breeders who are a little strange... We're just garden variety chicken keepers.

 

[LozzyR]

FB is horrible. I keep an account as it's an emergency contact for my daughter when she's overseas. Sometimes the phone just doesn't work from Chile but in an emergency she could always use the work computer to leave me a quick message. WhatsApp is replacing it ~ which I am super happy about. I think it's the serious show breeders who are a little strange... We're just garden variety chicken keepers.

WhatsApp is owned by Facebook.

 

[Shadrach]

FB is horrible. I keep an account as it's an emergency contact for my daughter when she's overseas. Sometimes the phone just doesn't work from Chile but in an emergency she could always use the work computer to leave me a quick message. WhatsApp is replacing it ~ which I am super happy about. I think it's the serious show breeders who are a little strange... We're just garden variety chicken keepers.

No way I could do Face Book! I had a Linked In account for awhile for work but I wasn't keen on that either.

 

[Ribh]

WhatsApp is owned by Facebook.

I didn't know ~ but it's still just an emergency contact. My other daughter needs it too for emergencies.

 

[Ribh]

No way I could do Face Book! I had a Linked In account for awhile for work but I wasn't keen on that either.

Just because I have an account doesn't mean I use it. I have a lot of international friends & when they all moved to FB it was a way of keeping in contact but I've shut most of it down because I wasn't so keen on the friends of my friends... What it is useful for it getting contacts to hard to source resources, like a phoenix breeder & those cream legbars MJ is keen on ~stuff google just wouldn't turn up for me. Chicken keeping ~ @ least the rarer show stuff out here, seems to be something of a secret club. I have enough trouble sourcing stuff from where I live. Anything that makes that process easier I will use.